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Sri Lanka's antivenom leap forward | Sri Lanka | Al Jazeera: Gawarammana agrees. "We should have our own manufacturing capabilities. There are lots of issues in this country where the same approach can be used to produce antidotes, for example, for plant poisons. It's important Sri Lanka has the technology."

While people are the focus of these efforts, for the AVRI team, saving snakes is a crucial goal as well.

"I am really sad to see the indiscriminate killing of snakes in this country. It has a huge, catastrophic effect on the ecological balance,"�Malleappah says.

As another unapologetic conservationist, Kotagama, too, is interested in seeing the antivenom developed.